Pick up any project and know where you are. knitCompanion keeps your spot in all your projects. Markers stay in the same spot as you move around, zoom, scroll, and rotate your device. Markers are super easy to use, just slide them with your finger. Customize the look of your marker by changing the color and settings. A very popular knitCompanion option is the inverted marker shown below. It dims the other instructions and helps your eyes easily find and stay focused on the current row, reduces eyestrain, and doesn’t obscure other colors and markups. How to customize your marker.

Love to write notes, hashmarks, and scribble on your patterns? With knitCompanion you can mark up your pattern with different colors and highlights, and all marks are easy to erase too! How to use Scribble.

You can watch videos right inside knitCompanion while you knit. This is a great way to learn a new skill or brush up on an older one. You can add your own links, or use ones provided in the pattern by the designer. How to add video links, project notes, and more.

Almost all patterns are more than one page and needed information will often be on a different page. For example the key, legend, or abbreviations may not be on the same page as the instructions you are using, or not visible once you zoom in. This means flipping around to find different pieces of information. With knitCompanion you can keep a variety of different information handy no matter where it is in the pattern. Here we can see our key is always visible as we move through our pattern. How to add a QuickKey.

Get automatic counts for longer stretches of stitches. This is makes charts much easier to use and faster to knit from. knitCompanion’s Magic Markers use advanced optical stitch recognition to “see” your chart and find all the matching symbols with a single tap. They work with any chart in any pattern. Use them to color code your stitches and count longer stitch runs. How to use Magic Markers.

Move to the next instruction with a single tap voice command. knitCompanion will keep track of additional instructions for each step, repeats, and more. Use Voice Controls to keep your hands on your work and use simple voice commands to control knitCompanion. There are voice commands to change instructions, shift wide instructions side to side, clear reminders and more. How to use the one-tap marker.

Here we see a border chart being added to the center motif. Place each new part by dragging it into position. You can use join anywhere you want to put parts together or re-organize the instruction layout. Your parts can come from different pages. And you can use Templates to create a part once and use it many times. How to join parts.

Many patterns require you keep track of several different things at the same time. Take the example of a sweater: you may need to follow a pattern motif (written or charted) while also placing buttonholes, and at the same time shaping the armhole, neckline, and decreasing for the waist. You need to remember to do each thing, at the correct row, and repeat it the right number of times for your size. knitCompanion makes it easy to see everything you need to do on each row all together. Here we are on Row 7 of our motif, getting reminders for buttonholes and shaping as we go. Never visit the frog pond again because you forgot a step 10 rows back! How to add reminders to charts or written instructions.

You can use knitCompanion’s tools with any pattern. There are also over 1000 patterns available already pre-formatted as kCDesigns. This includes patterns from over 80 independent designers as well as publishers such as Vogue Knitting. Learn more about kCDesigns.

Our team of tech editors has taken each pattern and created the setup for every size and option provided in the pattern to produce the kCDesign. Our kCDesign shop is linked to Ravelry so you can leverage your existing pattern purchases instead of re-buying the pattern. And for patterns you haven’t already purchased on Ravelry, the designer/publisher receives 100% of the pattern purchase via their Ravelry shop.